History for March 1

History for March 1 - On-This-Day.com:
William Dean Howells 1837 - Author, Glenn Miller 1904 - Bandleader, William Gaines 1922 - Publisher ("MAD Magazine")


Deke (Donald) Slayton 1924 - Astronaut, Roger Daltrey 1944 - Musician (The Who), Ron Howard 1954 - Producer, actor ("The Andy Griffith Show", "Happy Days")


1692 - In Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged.


1873 - E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, NY, began the manufacturing the first practical typewriter.


1912 - Captain Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.


1932 - The 22-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped. The child was found dead in May.


1941 - FM Radio began in Nashville, TN, when station W47NV began operations.


1941 - Bulgaria joined the Axis powers by signing the Tripartite Pact.


1954 - The United States announced that it had conducted a hydrogen bomb test on the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.


1954 - Five U.S. congressmen were wounded when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives.